Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911)

Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman in the United States to be accepted at a scientific school (MIT, 1873). A chemist, she's credited with founding the discipline of home economics.

A US industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member. Her pioneering work in sanitary engineering, and experimental research in domestic science, laid a foundation for the new science of home economics.

She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition.

Richards was the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, which she earned from Vassar College in 1870.

She was a "pragmatic feminist,"  as well as a founding ecofeminist, who thought that women's work within the home was a vital aspect of the economy. Source: wikipedia

Known for
Home economics

Euthenics - In her book Euthenics: the science of controllable environment (1910), she defined the term as the betterment of living conditions, through conscious endeavor, for the purpose of securing efficient human beings.

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